Service Quotes

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other.

George Eliot

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Sally Koch

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Ellen G White

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Henry Ford

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of person-kind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Leo Buscaglia

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T Washington

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi

Somewhere along the way, we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others.

Martin Luther King Jr

There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

Charles Dickens

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Acts 20:35

You who are suffering with poor health, there is a remedy for you. If thou clothe the naked and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house and deal thy bread to the hungry, then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily. Doing good is an excellent remedy for disease.

Ellen G White

Nothing exalts the soul or gives it a sheer sense of buoyancy and victory so much as being used to change the lives of other people.

E. Stanley Jones

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

Jim Rohn

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Samuel Smiles

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.

Ellen G White

The sage does not accumulate for himself.

The more he uses for others, the more he has himself.

The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own.

Lao Tzu

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Dodie Smith

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Charles Dickens

There are two ways to multiply our blessings. One is to recognize them. The other is to share them.

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.

Sidney Powell

Real living is living for others.

Bruce Lee

The best way to cheer yourself up: Cheer everybody else up.

Mark Twain

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr

Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

All the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.

Henry Ford

Look at a man the way that he is, he only becomes worse. But look at him as if he were what he could be, and then he becomes what he should be.

Goethe

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have a duty to perform, which is to make yourself cheerful and to cultivate unselfishness in your feelings until it will be your greatest pleasure to make all around you happy.

Ellen G White

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arm.

Sam Levenson

Spend out, to become rich.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Time, reason, means, strength, mental powers, tenderness of heart – all are gifts from God, entrusted to be used in the great work of blessing humanity.

Ellen G White

If service is below you, then leadership is beyond you.

You can create a lot of meaning in your own life by helping someone else do something that is meaningful to them.

James Clear